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KubeCon & CloudNativeCon 2024 in Paris – The Lightning Talks

For my 2nd time at the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe – the right place to be for all the Kubernetes & CloudNative technical sessions, showcases, networking and to have fun – the event took place in Paris. Our travel from(…)

dbi services and KubeCon EU met in Paris

Personal feedbacks of the day 1 of a DevOps Technology Leader from dbi services at the KubeCon EU 2024(…)

Kubernetes Network Policy by using Cilium – Beginner Level

Kubernetes network policies explained for the beginners. We review the basics of Kubernetes network policies.

Getting started with Greenplum – 6 – Why Greenplum?

Now that we have the basic knowledge for operating a Greenplum cluster we should talk about why Greenplum can be option and what are the benefits of such a system. Again, here are the previous posts:(…)

SQL Server Security: Ensure that SQL Server service accounts are not a member of the Windows local Administrator group

These last few weeks, I work on a project to check the compliance of an instance with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) document. The Benchmark documentation provides prescriptive guidance to secure SQL Server and I develop a tool(…)

Patching Oracle databases with Nutanix NDB

A few years back I had the great opportunity to test Nutanix NDB, at that time called Nutanix Era, and I had written a few blogs about provisioning Oracle databases, taking snapshot, log catchup, cloning a database, restoring a database,(…)

Create REST API from your database in minute with Feathers.js

Creating REST APIs is a fairly repetitive task. You’re always rewriting the Create, Read, Update, Delete methods…In my search for a framework capable of generating a REST API, I discovered Feathers, a simple and useful framework for Node.js.

Rancher RKE2 templates – Assign members to clusters

When testing RKE2 templates, I faced an issue with member assignments. When creating the cluster, a management cluster name is generated with the format c-m-xxxxxxxx, but the ClusterRoleTemplateBinding requires the cluster name to work. After digging into Rancher source code,(…)

DevOps Demystified for Non-techies

Devops explained to the very beginners. Devops explained to non-techies. The role of a DevOps consultant.

Getting started with Greenplum – 5 – Recovering from failed segment nodes

This is the next post in this little Greenplum series. This time we’ll look at how we can recover from a failed segment. If you are looking for the previous post, they are here: Getting started(…)